Month: December 2016

Hello everyone! I hope that you are all having a nice and relaxing Winter break.
Today we are going to talk about my favorite lips and eye makeup combo for these festive nights and, especially, for NYE.

I like that this makeup is shiny but light, and also not too dark or glitter-ish. So, if you fancy an easy look that will shimmer and glimmer under the 1000 lights of your NYE party, I think you will love this idea.

The three products that I would recommend are all from NYX Cosmetics (I really loved using them for a special holiday night out makeup).

• NYX Lingerie Eye Tint in 10 “ Fame & Fortune” and in 07 “Whimsy”.

Whether you’re having a low-key and relaxing dinner with your dearest friends or spending hours dancing, laughing and having fun at the coolest party in town, you surely want to look amazing for this particular night. They say that you have to wear something red on NYE for goodluck, so, aside from your lingerie, why not to be bold and use a red-ish metallic eye shadow? NYX Lingerie Eye Tint in n.07 “Whimsy” is perfect. This metallic and shiny shade will make your eyes truly pop!

You can also add a little hint of sparkle with this other beautiful shade, number 10 “Fame & Fortune”. It’s a cool metallic silver with a delicate pearl finish.

A weightless creamy eye shadow formula, NYX Lingerie Eye Tint provides a wonderful shade to your eyes, also this is a great highly pigmented, long lasting and easy to blend product. The real “must have” for NYX!

You can use them together to build a gorgeous eyes makeup, or you can blend them easily on a traditional powder eye shadow for an additional sparkling touch; your choice!

So, now that you have done your eyes with bold and shiny colors, you have to be light on your lips. I would recommend using a nude lipstick, such as NYX Cosmetics LingerieLiquid Lipstick in 02 “ Embellishment”. This is a weightless liquid lipstick with a matte finish and a great long lasting formula (it lasts for several hours even if you’ll eat a slice of Panettone or drink a glass of sparkling Prosecco – as we do here in Italy to celebrate New Year at midnight).

This shade has a nude tone with a cool pink undertone, beautiful and easy to wear with every skin tone.

The texture of this product is a little bit drying, so when or if you will have to refresh your makeup throughout the night, I would suggest to use a good lip balm underneath, otherwise this lipstick will dry your lips.

• You can find this liquid lipstick in every NYX Cosmetics store or here.

-The liquid lipstick:

-The eye shadows:

-My usual makeup with these products:

That’s all for this year, thank you so much for reading my blog ’til the end of 2016! I hope you will follow me and my posts even during 2017.Have a wonderful, safe and fun NYE everyone.

We are full swing into the holiday season, so if you have either been too busy to even think about Christmas gifts or you are still on the hunt for THE perfect gift for everyone on your list, today I’m going to give you a little bit of last minute inspiration for your Holidays/Christmas shopping.

The four categories that I am going to show you in this week post are:

– Home Decor Gift Ideas

– Stocking Stuffer Gift Ideas

– Style Gift Ideas

-Let’s Nerd Out Gift Ideas

1- Let’s begin with some Home Decor Ideas:

– This is a nice and affordable gift for everyone that loves to invite friends over for dinner or for a little aperitif at home. Also, this is a perfect addition to a great Christmas tablescape decor with a nordic theme.

Here and here are the links to a glass and a pitcher with a stars pattern (You can also find them in every H&M store).

– If you have very trendy and creativefriends that have just bought a newhouse, for example, you can give them this awesomepillow to make their sofa a happy place.

Here is the link (You can also find it in every Maison Du Monde store).

– This tapestry is the perfect gift to buy for someone who loves to travel, and a great wall decor idea to give personality to a sad, white wall in a college dorm room. It’s a beautiful picture of a lovely and peaceful Alpine lake in Italy.

– These pouches are a cool gift idea for every makeup addicted or every stationery addicted girl. You can use them to keep your pencils and pens or your everyday makeup products and brushes; they will fit perfectly and stylishly in your purse.

Here is the link.
– Last but not least, Christmas without a scented candle shouldn’t exist, right? So here you go, a Christmas Yankee Candle tart infused with a very special holiday flavor.

– I love this unique and modern earlobe earrings from Swarovski. They are perfect to give an original touch to every type of look, from classic to modern to young; so basically they are perfect for everyone.

– I’ve decided to end this part of my post with a cool and trendy piece; an amazing printed bomber. It’s not exactly cheap, but it’s really beautiful and a great present idea. Plus, the design is gorgeous.

– For a lot of people, a Winter break is not a good one without Christmas decoration and a marathon of their favorite TV show. So, a T-shirt inspired by his/her favorite tv show is an amazing gift idea for your very nerd/geek friend.

Hello everyone. Here we go again, the HO-HO so stressful time of the year… Christmas! 🙂

Today I’m going to post some stuff to get you started with your Holidays/Christmas shopping or give you a few handy ideas. Rest assured that I have it all covered, you don’t even need to leave your warm and comfy sofa… and your cup of hot chocolate! 😉

The three categories that I am going to present you this week are:

– Beauty Gift Ideas

– Skincare Gift Ideas

– Stationery Gift Ideas

1- Let’s begin with the Beauty Gift Ideas:

• For your best friend or a really close relative I think it would be great to buy a handy, beautiful and very big palette for the eyes. I would choose 35P palette from Morphe Brushes; amazing quality, a beauty bargain and it contains the most magnificent and plum-ish colors I have ever used.

• If you are looking for a good set of makeup brushes to give to one of your makeup addict friends (or to yourself), but you’re on a budget, I would recommend this lovely Start Makers Set with a silicone brush cleaner included!

Here is my review.
• Finally, one of the top product for every Christmas time: red lipsticks. I’m sure in my review you will find the perfect color for your skin tone, you festive dress, or to buy as a Christmas present! 😉

• This is a great moisturizer and an amazing primer all in one product. I like to use it under my makeup, especially when I am in a hurry and I need an all in one type of product as a moisturizer and a makeup base. Hangover from Too Faced is the one! It’s a smoothing and at the same time hydrating lotion/cream; the perfect combo for the freezing winter weather. A terrific gift!

• The Revitalizing Oil for face, body and hair by Darphin is awesome and has a really high moisturizing powers for the girls that suffer from dry skin/hair. It’s another perfect and also multipurposegift.

• Last, but surely not least, the most important product in everyone skincare routine, a gentle but perfect cleanser for an intense purification of your skin; the amazing LRP Effaclar H cleanser. It’s a mousse/cream that takes off all the dirt on your skin, the Gift with a capital “G” for your friend that doesn’t know anything about taking care properly of her/his skin!

3- And then I will finishing this post with some lovely Stationery Gift Idea:

• I really love using cute pens to write down my post ideas, appointments and deadlines on my Filofax so I’ve scoured almost all Amazon stationery pages to find this Okray Swarovsky Pens with all the colors in one box. It’s amazing, isn’t it?! 😉 I mean, all the colors in one box?! OMG!!!

• For a year now I keep trying to learn how to write in a better and flourish way, and I keep failing every single time. So, this Christmas I was thinking to buy a calligraphy book that has at the end a little sketchbook for practicing your writing style at home.

• In the end I thought about a beautiful spiral notebook where you can write down every single one of your amazing thoughts and ideas. This notebook would also make a great stocking filler item or a great part of a bigger gift.